ArtBase Helgeland 66 ° N celebrates the opening of Kulturbadet in Sandnessjøen. As a gift to Alstahaug municipality, locals, guests and visitors we realized the project "Welcome Home" with a desire to enrich Sandnessjøen’s atmosphere and its surroundings with two new graffiti works performed at key locations. We believe that collaboration and generosity are important keys to discover, promote and develop personal and communal resources available, abilities and opportunities for mutual growth and joy. We hope the audience will allow the works to settle within, for wonder and joy and that the visual transformations in the public space can be of service to create a good dialogue between people and about Sandnessjøen’s possibilities, identity and activity. We look forward to continuing our cooperation with Arkhangelsk International Cultural Center and hoping for a rapidly reunion with the artists for new projects. (June 30th, 2015 Ina Otzko)

We rush through our life, without having any time to stop and to think, was it really our choice or was it decided for us already?

The main idea of our work is that the world is diverse and the man runs the world and sees, how everything changes around him. For us the rabbit is like a symbol of freedom (nature) in opposition to the mechanical world where everything is calculated and counted. But we are people. We are living beings we are not soulless machinery. The man is not a work equipment he shouldn't carry out "the computer program" of life - to buy the house, the car, the yacht, the estate etc. The man always has a choice, and he has the right to use it. He can look at the world, feel, love, live. He has to make a conscious choice. It is important that he is engaged in that what is really pleasant to him. He shouldn't do what society imposes on him, the government, parents, etc. We tried to reflect it in the work, the background is executed in a manner of straight lines and bow-shaped dynamic lines, and a silhouette of a handdrawn free, cheerful rabbit in speed.

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The foundation is the book Alice in Wonderland. She went into another world and looking for a way home. The second idea - a change of pace in the world, we are all in a hurry. The fast pace of life and the rabbit - a symbol of haste and a symbol of cowardice. He is afraid, and many people are afraid to change their life and come up with a thousand reasons not to. The game, one sees in the figures is interesting as every man sees his own depending on ones imagination and experience.

While the rabbit is a symbol for being a bit afraid of life, this second work is in context to those pioneers who are not afraid to jump into the dark, into the unknown to make a change. On what side are you?
( June 2015, Alexander Menukhov & Glafira Sergeevna Severianova)